RESILIENCY OF THE WEST KOOTENAY ARTS COMMUNITY IS FOCUS OF A PRESENTATION BY OXYGEN ART CENTRE’S FOUNDERS JAN. 21 Watch the video recording of the Founders talk online here: Part 1:https://youtu.be/_EN6mBeOqyc Part 2: https://youtu.be/fUwagkrpekM Part 3: https://youtu.be/fE53E2r7nF0 The resiliency of West Kootenay artists who, after being fired en masse from Nelson’s Kootenay School of the Arts in 2002 went on to start the city’s only artist-run centre, will be the subject of a talk by five of the founding members of the Oxygen Art Centre on Saturday, Jan
Read More »UBC OKANAGAN AUTHOR SHARON THESEN AND NORTH NELSON’S ROSS KLATTE READ NOV. 18 IN SECOND OF A SERIES CELEBRATING OXYGEN ART CENTRE’S PAST 10 YEARS The second in a series of author readings during 2016-2017 that mark 10 years of arts programming at Nelson, B.C.’s Oxygen Art Centre will showcase Okanagan-based poet, editor, and teacher Sharon Thesen, and North Nelson memoirist and fiction writer Ross Klatte on Friday, November 18. The duo’s reading begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free ($5 donation appreciated) and the event is open to the
Read More »FORMER CANADIAN POET LAUREATE FRED WAH AND AUTHOR LINDA CROSFIELD KICK OFF NELSON, BC, READING SERIES CELEBRATING OXYGEN ART CENTRE’S PAST 10 YEARS OCT. 7 Friday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m Much-honored Canadian poet Fred Wah and Ootischenia, B.C., poet and publisher Linda Crosfield will read at Nelson, B.C.’s Oxygen Art Centre at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7. The reading is the first of a series of four author readings during 2016-2017 marking 10 years of arts programming at Oxygen’s current gallery and performance space. The event is free
Read More »Art Space Series May 3 at 7.30pm *at Expessions Cafe – 544 Ward st – Artist talk: Ian Johnston, visual artist and City of Nelson Cultural Ambassador May 10 at 7.30pm – Book launch: Nicola Harwood, Flight Instructions for the Commitment Impaired! with special guest Michael V. Smith May 11 at 7.30pm – Artist talk: Mitchell Scott, writer and publisher of Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine May 18 at 7.30pm – Crime Time in Nelson presented by mystery & crime fiction authors Sam Wiebe, Deryn Collier, Dietrich Kalteis, Linda L. Richards and RM Greenaway May 20 at 7.30pm &#
Read More »THREE AUTHORS READ IN NELSON OCT. 8 TO CELEBRATE WEST KOOTENAY CREATIVE WRITING EDUCATION Three authors on Thursday, Oct. 8 will celebrate nearly 50 years of creative writing education in the West Kootenay. Reading at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Presentation Series of Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre will be local pioneer creative writing teacher Fred Wah and Nelson’s two newest writing instructors, Sonnet L’Abbe and Leesa Dean. The event is free ($5 donation appreciated) and open to the public. The Oxygen Art Centre is located at 320 Vernon St
Read More »Acclaimed poet Colin Browne launches new collection in Nelson Author and filmmaker Colin Browne has earned critical acclaim on both artistic fronts, with nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the ReLit Award for his poetry as well as a Genie nomination for documentary film. Browne launches his newest book of poetry, The Hatch, on Friday, May 29 at 7:30pm at Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson. In The Hatch “myth, history, and the present are contemporaneous in these poems; nothing is ever one
Read More »Kevin Spenst arrives in Nelson on a 50 stop reading tour around BC! Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to present the latest work by Vancouver based poet Kevin Spenst, whom has embarked on a 50-reading tour of BC in support of small poetry presses. Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press 2015,) is Spenst’s much-anticipated debut collection of poetry. The work opens as a coming-of-age narrative of lower-middle class life in Vancouver’s suburb of Surrey, embroidered within a myriad of pop-culture and “post-Mennonite.” Slocan based poet Barbara Curry Mulcahy will join
Read More »On Friday, April 10th at 7pm Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to host West Kootenay author and activist K.L. Kivi for the launch of her newest book. Unknown Hum is Kivi’s first collection of poetry but the themes of her poems will resonate with those familiar with her work. Unknown Hum explores the terrain of living a mindful life passionately engaged with the natural world and activist politics. “If my novels rise from my emotional self and my creative documentary from my mind, my poetry reflects on the spiritual
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